Catherine Frieman

And yeah, I've been running through the color spectrum.

This meme template is my favourite niche archaeology debate meme template.

I'm going to add to this... A good and valuable literature review also makes an argument. It's not a summary of every paper ever, it's a selective discussion from a position of expertise that does specific field defining work

yeah, like...the point is not to *create* a literature review usually. there's so many published reviews on, say, the genomics of speciation that it's a little weird to think the goal is to publish yours, esp as a new student. but by *doing* it, you actually understand the field!

In this introduction to our new issue, Sarah Kurnick and Samantha Fladd rethink gender inequality in #archaeology. Moving beyond the “leaky pipeline”, they argue that exclusion is an active, structural process shaping who remains visible and cited in the field. 🏺
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Fun fact: because of how they both relate to a small ball, the words ballot and bullet share an origin in the Latin "bulla," a knob or similar small round object.

Malcom X didn't explicitly refer to this but it's why the wordplay works in his famous "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech.

UNL faculty to introduce ‘no-confidence’ resolutions against three more administrators • Nebraska Examiner Some University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty are looking to make history again with “no-confidence” votes of three more top administrators.

MORE NO-CONFIDENCE VOTES: Some University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty look to make history next month by again seeking “no-confidence” votes, this time targeting three top administrators they call “architects” of recent budget cuts.

From Zach Wendling:

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You know, there's the joke ("joke") that universities are real estate ventures with a side hustle in education. Turns out that the reality of that claim is even more horrifying because of whom they're selling their real estate to. /6

GW sold Virginia campus for $427 million to Amazon for data center development The deal transfers all of GW’s roughly 122 acres of property in Loudoun County, Virginia, to ADS for $427,299,350 — roughly $3.5 million an acre — according to real estate records.

That story broken is here, and people should be outraged at what it's reporting. 2/

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There's a potential (quite scrappy) yurt-like structure down at Sennon in Cornwall too - associated with quite early beaker styles and near some of the ore grounds feiw

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Very much agree

The most dangerous thing about AI chat bots is how many men with political power treat them *exactly* and unquestioningly like actual Ancient Greek oracles.

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.”

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I have transited through Dubai a ton of times and it's my most loathed airport (other than DFW) - everything is so bright and shiny but there are only stores and people are lying all over the floor because there aren't human scale facilities and the folks there don't care. Perfectly apt.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

OPINION | Media needs to be better when it comes to covering the difficult issues in hockey | CBC Sports The SNL appearance by U.S. hockey players provided an opportunity to focus on hockey again, and offered audiences and fans some closure. But has anything really changed? As a journalist, I often ask: ...

It's time to talk about hockey media in Canada. Actually, it has been time for awhile. My thoughts on comments from Insiders, hockey media approaches, using language correctly, and accountability - or the lack of it.
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Why History Matters - AHA Why Study History Historical Thinking in Everyday Life The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history, and reflections on why learning about the past helps u...

“I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope.” —Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996.

Read more about why history matters & the importance of historical thinking in public life.

Amazing how the archaeology of Arabia is developing. Nice new paper from my colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was at JFK last night and they seemed to still be operating a flight to Abu Dhabi while Doha. Dubai, etc were marked cancelled

When I hit this part of my eu prehistory course I just start growling so you're fine

this is so ghoulish and disgusting

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying

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Screenshot of tradie puppy.

Reply from my husband. Absolutely nothing would go wrong!

Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

Lorraine Schneider, 1967

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

Nodding in fantasy sports as a Trojan horse for racist, neoliberal rationality as a basis for Trumpism:

Early hominin arrival in Southeast Asia triggered the evolution of major human malaria vectors - Scientific Reports Some species of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles mosquitoes in Southeast Asia are highly anthropophilic and efficient vectors of human malaria parasites, while others primarily feed on non-human primates (NHP) and transmit NHP malaria parasites. The evolutionary history of this group, particularly the origin of anthropophily, was studied using phylogenomic analysis of 2,657 high-confidence nuclear single-copy orthologous genes and 13 mitochondrial protein coding genes from 40 individuals of 11 species. Molecular dating and ancestral state reconstruction revealed that monkey-feeding is ancestral with speciation of monkey-feeding species dating to the Pliocene within Sundaland (Malay peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Java) which was covered in tropical rain forests during this period. Although less parsimonious alternatives cannot be excluded, molecular dating, ancestral state reconstruction and reticulation analysis indicated that anthropophily most likely evolved once, involving adaptive introgression, in the early Pleistocene in Sundaland, giving rise to multiple descendent anthropophilic species. Such early origination of anthropophily must necessarily have been in response to the arrival of early hominins (Homo erectus) rather than anatomically modern humans, likely associated with loss and fragmentation of rainforests during the early Pleistocene. The early origination of anthropophily also provides independent non-archaeological evidence supporting the limited fossil record of early hominin colonization in Southeast Asia around 1.8 Mya.

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles mosquitoes for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of early hominins in Southeast Asia ~1.8 million years ago. The findings are published in Scientific Reports. 🧪 #evobio

Love this! I once did a radio hit on an Aus science program to answer this very question from a listener